Applying Your Guitar Knowledge To Ukulele

  Ukuleles are quite similar to guitars. One of the perks of playing fretted instruments is the relative ease with which new instruments in the family can be picked up, and going from guitar to ukulele is no exception. It might not be quite as direct a one-to-one translation as going from guitar to bass, but the broad strokes are still pretty similar. Notes are fretted the way, each fret represent

  When you first learn to play guitar, the focus is generally on big open chords that use all or most of the guitar’s strings. However, something that may surprise you is that some of the notes in many of your open chord shapes aren’t really necessary. This is because all of your basic major and minor chords actually only have three unique pitches in them. As a result, any basic major or minor cho

  Emerging in 1950s Jamaica as an early form of reggae and later gaining new life when it collided with the British punk scene two decades later, ska has remained an enduring form of music with a devoted following since its inception. In its original form, ska merged the syncopated rhythms of Caribbean music with the high energy and instrumentation of American R&B. A later influx of Jamaican immig